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Great tennis Serena Williams opened her incredible weight loss trip, revealing that she lost 31 pounds with the help of a GLP-1 medication.
The 23 times Chelem Champion revealed in interviews with People Magazine and “Today” that she turned to a GLP-1 medication after fighting with her health after the birth of her second daughter.
In this September 7, 2019, File Photo, Serena Williams returns a shot to Bianca Andreescu, Canada, during the female final of the US Open Tennis Championships in New York. (AP photo / Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, file)
“In particular, after having my second child, I could never be at a healthy weight in which I could be, whether it was my joints or my blood sugar. It was always something with which I suffered and that many women are going through this,” said Williams during an appearance Thursday “today”.
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Williams, 43 lose weight No matter how activated it was. She said it had started to wreak havoc on her joints.
“No matter what I did – running, walking, I walked for hours because they say that it is good, I literally did a professional sport – and I could never come back to the place where I had to be for my health. Then, after my second child, it even became more difficult. So I said to myself, ok, I have to try something different.”
Williams said that she had decided to be opened on her journey in order to destroy the use of the GLP-1 medication for weight loss.
Serena Williams was seen on August 21, 2025 in New York. (Xny / star max / gc images)
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“A false idea is that it is a shortcut,” she told “Today”. “As an athlete and as a person who did everything, I just couldn’t have my weight where I had to be in a healthy place – and believe me, I don’t take shortened.”
Williams said People magazine In addition, despite its new look, its level of confidence has never hesitated. His decision to make a change was based on something completely different.
“I have never felt this pressure to maintain a certain appearance,” she said. “I always felt comfortable at any size, whether I was much heavier or not. I have the impression that my body did not love me at this weight. I had pain in my joints and my pain in different areas simply because of the additional weight that I am not used to having since I had children.”
Serena Williams cleans her fist after beating Qiang Wang, from China, in the quarter -final of the US Open on September 3, 2019, in New York. (AP photo / Charles Krupa)
“But the size I was before, there was nothing wrong with that. It’s just not what I wanted to have. I just knew I wanted to be where I felt personally.”
GLP-1, also known As GLP-1, are a type of medication that imitates a natural hormone called peptide-1 of glucagon type which helps regulate blood sugar.
